JOHN JACOBSON

“Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: “The line between good and evil is in the center of every human heart.”
― Philip G. Zimbardo, The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil

“As Upton Sinclair famously observed: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!”36”
― Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate

“Like rats that cannot stop pressing a button, partisans may be simply unable to stop believing weird things. The partisan brain has been reinforced so many times for performing mental contortions that free it from unwanted beliefs. Extreme partisanship may be literally addictive.”
― Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion

“Sitting at the top tier of American science are the members of the National Academy of Sciences, an honorary organization that elects only the most accomplished researchers in the United States. And here nonbelief is the rule: 93 percent of the members are atheists or agnostics, with only 7 percent believing in a personal god. This is almost the exact opposite of the data for “average” Americans.”
― Jerry A. Coyne, Faith Versus Fact: Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible